Elaine Scarry

Literary Theorist and Cultural Critic, Elaine Scarry is the Walter
M. Cabot Professor of Aesthetics and General Theory of Value for
the Department of English at Harvard University.

Her multiple
interest encompass 20th-Century Drama; 19th-Century British Novel;
Theory of Representation; Language of Physical Pain; Structure of
Verbal and Material Making in Art, Science, and the Law.

Elaine Scarry will be presented by the Stanford Humanities Center
as part of the Presidential and Endowed Lectures in the Humanities
and Arts.

Her lecture is entitled "Nine One One: Citizenship
in Emergency."

The lecture will take place on Monday, February 25th, 2002 in Room
290, of the School of Law at 7:00pm

A discussion will follow on Tuesday, February 26th, 2002, from
10:30am - 12:00noon, at the Stanford Humanities Center: 424 Santa
Teresa Street, Stanford University